[357] Omitted in ed. 2.
[358] Omitted in ed. 2.
[359] “I am weary ... now”—added in ed. 2.
[360] There is an allusion to the old superstition (which Ben Jonson has amusingly illustrated in The Devil is an Ass, v. 5), that a person possessed by the devil was able to converse in various tongues.
[361] A term of contempt for a sordid old man.—Cf. The Widow, ii. 2:—“Hear you me that, old huddle" (Middleton, v. 165).
[362] Ed. 2. “Penlolians.”
[363] “Monkeys, apes, stellions, lizards, wasps, ichneumons, swallows, sparrows, muskins, hedge-sparrows feed on spiders,” says Dr. Muffet in one of his delightful chapters on spiders in The Theater of Insects (Topsel’s Nat. Hist., ed. 1658, p. 1073).
[364] The housings of a horse.
[365] Mistress (Ital.).
[366] Added in ed. 2.